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Quick Blood Compatibility Test Before Transfusion

Virginia rates for HCPCS 86920

This is a rapid laboratory step used to check compatibility between a patient's blood and a specific unit of donor blood before a transfusion. It is one of the checks performed as part of pre-transfusion testing.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Quick Blood Compatibility Test Before Transfusion cost?

$33.88

Typical negotiated rate. In Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $33.88 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $30.20 from a physician practice, and about $158 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$30.20$21.38 to $30.90
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$158$52.48 to $309

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $158 · 10th to 90th $30 to $398Professionalmedian $30 · 10th to 90th $15 to $43
$20$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $158professional $30

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$338.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$30.90
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$933.25
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.79
Median
$14.79
Typical High
$25.12
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$41.69
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$100.00
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.58
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$144.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.75
Median
$18.62
Typical High
$33.11
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$37.15
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$18.62
Typical High
$26.30
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$16.22
Typical High
$28.18
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$10,000.00
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$10,000.00
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$173.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$15.14
Typical High
$25.12

Where Virginia sits

The same service costs 6.8 times more in West Virginia than in Oklahoma. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Virginia· 26th of 51

$33.88

WV $148OK $21.88

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.